Harry Nelson Pillsbury

Harry Nelson Pillsbury was a leading American chess player. At the age of 22, he won the Hastings 1895 chess tournament, one of the strongest tournaments of the time, but his illness and early death prevented him from challenging for the World Chess Championship.

5 December 1872

Born on the same birth day (5 December): Alvy Moore • Arthur Currie • Carrie Hamilton • Don Touhig • Eric Etebari • Gareth McAuley • Joanna Rowsell • Keri Hilson • Ladislav Novák • Marcelo Zalayeta • Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer • Tony Crafter

Born in the same month (December 1872): Albert Payson Terhune • Anton Denikin • Arthur Charles Hardy • Arthur Henry Adams • Camille Guérin • Fred Marriott • Helena Rubinstein • Trevor Kincaid • William Haselden